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43 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

This thread prompted me to watch something I would have had no interest in otherwise.

My observations are:

1. The Essendon player hit his head on the ground as a result of the forward momentum of the passage of play; and,

2. The Geelong player endeavoured to arrest the momentum and hold the Essendon player up.

I'm prepared to suspend my conspiracy theory tendency. On this one.

While I'd concur with both your points here (though Kynan Brown showed that it is possible to do more to avoid a player pitching forward in a not dissimilar tackle), the compelling element for me was that Dangerfield locked both of the player's arms, so he couldn't protect himself from that forward momentum towards the ground.

1 hour ago, Chook said:

By that logic it's a 100% chance. He can't both retire and not retire. Only one outcome will take place ergo 100%.

Schrodinger's Trac?

56 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

this is all very mfcss with the 'he's going to retire'

i mean, it's 50/50 really, isn't it? either he will or he won't

i'm presuming come rd 1, 2025, he'll be prowling around the square

Careful here - 50/50 implies the same probability for both outcomes, which is not necessarily the case despite there being two possibilities.

Jakovich will or will not come out of retirement and spearhead our forward line next year - 2 possibilities, not equally probable.

1 hour ago, adonski said:

Where were you when Jefferson kicked 12 at Genis Steel Oval on the 29th of June we'll be asking ourselves

What a great choice of .gif.  Well done. 🤣

16 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

But in saying that, it's a bloody hard thing to do and teams now are more likely to try and play a faster high score game.

And we can't hold it in our f50 like we use too.

Yes that's a really good point - it was more achievable the way the game was played a few years back.

Equally, it is depressing to see how often we've blown past the target we once had (Steven May revealed in a post-match interview back in 2021 or 22) for opposition score of 60 or less (15 pts per qtr). Achieved only twice this year (against Hawks and Tigers).

17 hours ago, redandbluemakepurple said:

Aaargghhh, I've seen worse.  47 points up, 6 minutes into the last quarter.  Lost by 1.  1991-ish

And just like that, I suddenly feel like I need to throw up. I was there that day.

Just seen a post from the club highlighting Andy Moniz-Wakefield's numbers on the weekend for casey. These posts often precede a debut in the seniors.  It'd be interesting to see what he can do in the ones - Brisbane up there is a bit of a baptism by fire, but if the practice of debuting players as sub is the way of things that could be an option.

MFC Facebook post re. AMW

2 hours ago, beelzebub said:

2 hours ago, beelzebub said:

Or will we get this Brisbane?

11 minutes ago, Hellaintabadplacetobe said:

Confirmed by lab as 70m by Brad Johnson post game review who was ropable and has been banging on about these for a month or more.

Staggering.

That is a 40% over-estimation of the distance. 40%!  There are literally two arcs drawn on the turf marking the required distance that the umpires could look to for reference. It is inexcusable. Good on Brad Johnson for railing on this.

6. Kynan Brown - matchwinning tackle

5. Rivers

4. Viney

3. Gawn

2. Tholstrup

1. May

Can we see our debutant at all? 

Roooooooooooooo!!! 

Good to see Kolt giving more than he was getting in that half-time melee. 🤣

Good to hear the commentators calling out the ridiculous over-estimation of 50 metres.

Liking Tholstrup getting more of the ball. His belief seems to be rising.

[censored] you Footy Dept debuting Kynan Brown as sub. The folder of ****ful selection decisions in the past few years is starting to burst at the seams.

50 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Chris Scott giving about 13 years worth of credit to the opposition in his post game presser.

Never heard him so complimentary.

He's reached the "acceptance" phase of his grief journey. 

What TF was that Catman [censored] doing in the stands just now?

4 minutes ago, Age said:

It's a shame we can't loan Petty out like in the premier league so he could play us and get back into form. We are the competition kings at playing an out of form opponent into form!!

Thanks for that - gave me a literal laugh out loud in the office!

6 hours ago, old dee said:

When you see a player shake hands with a thug who ended one of your team mates career you know we are as soft as butter. 

A couple of years ago we took the field against Sydney, and May moved to shake hands with Buddy Franklin, who ignored him and walked straight by. It [censored] me off at the time but in reflection it was a solid F-you psychological move. I would have felt much better had this been our modus operandi regarding Thug Maynard against the Pies.  

1 hour ago, Superunknown said:

According to something I saw from the Hun or Domainfax there was rival interest? Anyone from whom?

Whoever his manager made up.

8 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

Can someone get Schwarz to give him a courtesy call on the danger in returning from an ACL prematurely?

Gawd this is a cholera-level bed-[censored] by Adelaide right now. 

Oh good, Gerald feels there's enough of a pile on that it's safe for him to jump in too. It is Melbourne after all, not a big club, so he won't get blowback from AFL HQ. Does he really want to bring out the "duty of care" card when this was absent from several incidents of which we've been on the receiving end in recent years? Kicking in danger breaking players hands, low pushes in back tearing players hamstrings, feigning smothers to end a player's career?

It's not like in this case a player just waved a doctor away after an obvious head clash, or a club ignored footage of a head clash and didn't follow up with a concussion test, or one of many other instances we've seen of a club's failure to exercise duty of care.  We have doctors assessing likely broken ribs and acting accordingly as per the symptoms, including ultimately subbing Trac and sending him to hospital well before the game was over.